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June 18, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Trump’s Black Church Stunt Was Bad. His Next Event Was Even Worse.
After his failed appeal to Black voters, Donald Trump appeared at an event hosted by someone who says the Civil Rights Act was a “huge mistake.”
June 17, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Trump Is Bragging About Endorsements From Black People. He Paid Some.
At least three people who have endorsed Donald Trump are on his payroll.
June 7, 2024
Edith Olmsted
Byron Donalds Cannot Stop Praising the Jim Crow Era
Even Fox News has grown incredulous about his obsession.
May 15, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
How Abortion Bans Put Black Women in the Most Danger
More than half of Black women have little to no abortion access.
April 9, 2024
Hafiz Rashid
Letitia James Scores Again, Nails Notorious MAGA Election Fraudsters
Two men agreed to pay a settlement for trying to intimidate Black voters in 2020.
February 22, 2024
Tori Otten
Texas Judge: It’s Totally OK That School Punished Black Kid Over His Hair
The shocking ruling comes after a Black high school student’s monthslong punishment over his locs.
January 5, 2024
Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling
Nikki Haley Really Just Used the “Black Friends” Card to Defend Herself
Nikki Haley keeps digging herself into a bigger hole.
March 29, 2023
Tori Otten
Black Californians Owed More Than $800 Billion in Reparations, Economists Say
The estimate comes as a California task force considers how to compensate for centuries of harms to Black Americans.
March 15, 2023
Tori Otten
San Francisco Board Open to Paying Black Residents $5 Million in Reparations
The city’s board of supervisors moved forward a draft plan with suggestions on how to compensate Black residents for centuries of slavery and systemic racism.
December 21, 2020
Magazine
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw
The Unacceptable Costs of Appeasing MAGA Nation
Why we can’t afford to make peace with white supremacists
November 25, 2020
Magazine
Gaiutra Bahadur
Is America Trapped in a Caste System?
Isabel Wilkerson compares American racism to structures of oppression in India and Nazi Germany.
November 6, 2020
Magazine
Jennifer Wilson
Yaa Gyasi Versus the Identity Trap
In “Transcendent Kingdom,” a young Black woman refuses to be defined by other people’s narratives.
September 22, 2020
Magazine
Adolph Reed Jr.
TV Race Fables and the Privilege of a Raging Class
“The Cosby Show,” “#blackAF,” and the misleading fixation on the “racial wealth gap”
October 24, 2019
Magazine
Scott W. Stern
The Making of a White Supremacist Myth
Why the far-right pushes the lie that black Americans fought as Confederate soldiers
September 2, 2014
Danny Vinik
Ted Cruz Needs to Keep His Dad Away From His (Potential) Campaign
Rafael Cruz thinks the "average black" doesn't understand the minimum wage
March 6, 1995
Leon Wieseltier
All and Nothing at All
The unreal world of Cornel West
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